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US officials confirm full-scale investigation of whether coronavirus escaped from Wuhan lab
Fox News ^ | 17 April 2020 | Bret Baier, Gillian Turner, Adam Shaw

Posted on 04/18/2020 9:42:43 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

EXCLUSIVE: The U.S. is conducting a full-scale investigation into whether the novel coronavirus, which went on to morph into a global pandemic that has brought the global economy to its knees, escaped from a lab in Wuhan, China, Fox News has learned.

Intelligence operatives are said to be gathering information about the laboratory and the initial outbreak of the virus. Intelligence analysts are piecing together a timeline of what the government knew and “creating an accurate picture of what happened,” the sources said.

Once that investigation is complete -- something that is expected to happen in the near-term -- the findings will be presented to the Trump administration. At that point White House policymakers and President Trump will use the findings to determine how to hold the country accountable for the pandemic.

Fox News first reported on Wednesday that there is increasing confidence that the outbreak likely originated in a Wuhan lab, not as a bioweapon but as part of a Chinese effort to show that its efforts to identify and combat viruses are equal or greater than those of the U.S.

U.S. officials and the intelligence community have confirmed to Fox News that they have taken the possibility of the coronavirus being man-made or engineered inside China as some sort of bioweapon off the table and have ruled it out at this point.

Sources point to the structure of the virus, in saying the genome mapping specifically shows it was not genetically altered. The sources believe the initial transmission of the virus was a naturally occurring strain that was being studied there -- and then went into the population in Wuhan.

Sources say the investigation of open source and classified data points to the work in the lab of Dr. Shi Zhengli, who was working on antivirals and...

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: coronaviruses; covid19; shizhengli; wuhan
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I hope they’re not expecting any cooperation from China or the WHO or anyone else for that matter. They’ll get nothing but deception and cover-up from any of them.

I hope they realize that in advance.


21 posted on 04/18/2020 10:45:57 PM PDT by Bullish (Covfefe Happens)
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To: WildHighlander57

It is a trick that the media uses. They are slightly entertaining us on the idea that it came from the lab. While the reader is all excited about that then they slip in the propaganda that it is not man made. And there true goal was to do that all along. That is the narrative they have been ordered to push. People are therefore tricked into not questioning that part. They are too excited about the other part.

It does not work anymore on those that are wise to them.


22 posted on 04/18/2020 11:06:02 PM PDT by Revel
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To: Cowboy Bob
"Why study bat viruses in the first place?"

Bats are a unique animal that has great importance in the study of viruses. They can carry 60 different viruses at a time and not have any effects. How do they do that? Scientist want to know because what they learn will give methods that humans can use to treat the results of viral infections. As an example:

https://phys.org/news/2019-02-secret-immunity.html

23 posted on 04/18/2020 11:11:27 PM PDT by jonrick46 (Cultural Marxism is the cult of the Left waiting for the Mothership.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“U.S. officials and the intelligence community have confirmed to Fox News that they have taken the possibility of the coronavirus being man-made or engineered inside China as some sort of bioweapon off the table and have ruled it out at this point.”

Behold the art of minimizing by lying.

Someone is real damn interested in making sure the BS seed grows in our minds.

CHINESE ENGINEERED BIOWEAPON, you lying sons of bitches!


24 posted on 04/18/2020 11:13:08 PM PDT by chris37 (China's Gift wasn't born in a bowl of bat soup.)
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To: jonrick46

I keep coming back to the fact that the ChiCom government ordered all samples of the virus to be destroyed. To me, that proves beyond any doubt that it was engineered in some way. If, as claimed, it was just a naturally occurring virus that perhaps mutated, again naturally, then why hide the virus itself? The only reason to destroy it is to hide its true nature and origin.


25 posted on 04/18/2020 11:51:04 PM PDT by noiseman (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.`)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
No worries, it didn't "escape"....it was DISTRIBUTED...

Chinese researcher escorted from infectious disease lab amid RCMP investigation LINK

Why was a Chinese scientist stripped of security clearance?

Harvard professor among three charged with lying about Chinese government ties LINK

What were the professor's ties to Wuhan lab?

Expert: Chinese Scientists Sell Lab Animals as Meat on the Black Market LINK

Selling a lie? The outbreak caused by bat soup?

Steven Mosher: ‘Most Likely Explanation’ for Coronavirus Is Wuhan Bioweapons Lab LINK

Meaning it was created in a lab and weaponized. Why?

Stock Markets Retreat As Nervous Investors Pocket Week's Gains LINK

Follow the money, who's waiting in the wings to profit (As early as January 26th)?

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Commits $10 Million to Global Response to 2019-nCOV LINK

Bill Gates Predicted Coronavirus-Like Outbreak in 2019 Netflix Documentary LINK

There has been theories that the Wuhan Bio-lab was funded by George Soros

Jeremy Corbyn's brother Piers claims Bill Gates and George Soros are behind coronavirus in bid to cull world's population with poisoned antidote in bizarre conspiracy theory LINK

Could that be disinfo to cover the real reasons? Just a motive of tanking global economies and install global governance, or simply to take down a president and return to "business as usual" with DUmocrat puppets? A 2015 documentary from Italia RAI (Italian national public broadcaster) covers a Chinese Lab that's engineering of a new virus combining Coronavirus from bats with SARS LINK

The Lab Experiment of BAT WOMAN LINK

Did she get a case of ARKANCIDE?

The DELIVERY SYSTEM LINK

DEEP STATE strikes back?

Fauci: There will be a surprise outbreak (2017) LINK

Who will PROFIT from chaos?

Bill Gates calls for nationwide social isolation policy to slow virus LINK

So, Bill Gates and George Soros both tag-team to fund a Wuhan bat virus study while combining it to infect humans, then create an "antidote" to sell to solve the problem that they themselves created.

Bill Gates Calls For National Tracking System For Coronavirus During Reddit AMA

Bill Gates has got a secret!LINK

Bill Gates Calls For National Tracking System For Coronavirus During Reddit AMA LINK

Bill Gates: Coronavirus Means We Need ‘Digital Certificates’ To Prove Who Received Vaccine LINK

Can I offer you a new tattoo?

Bill Gates, MIT Develop New ‘Tattoo ID’ to Check For Vaccinations LINK

The DELIVERY SYSTEM

LINK

The Laptop

LINK

The Lugi

LINK

The ELEVATOR

LINK

Door Handles

LINK

Chinese Checkers

LINK

Air Mail

LINK

“No more for Americans!”

LINK

26 posted on 04/18/2020 11:56:07 PM PDT by RasterMaster ("Towering genius disdains a beaten path." - Abraham Lincoln)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Flying Fox News


27 posted on 04/19/2020 12:01:22 AM PDT by Long Jon No Silver
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To: BenLurkin

Depends on whether on not you believe the tinfoilhattery that antivaxxer Robert F Kennedy Jr is spreading around.


29 posted on 04/19/2020 12:56:28 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: Cowboy Bob

Zoonotic diseases have been a priority since not only can some be a direct threat to people, they can also be a direct threat to agriculture if livestock gets infected. Livestock being livestock, animals must be confined, and confined animals are at greater risk than wild ones because disease transmits easier , as disease does with people living in cities.

Another reason to study weird diseases is that some viruses and bacteria have properties which can actually be used to heal other diseases. An example of this is the avian/bird disease called Newcastle Disease, which originated in Indonesia. Parts of the virus are showing great promise in fighting cancer because the virus has the ability to destroy tumor cells without harming normal cells.


30 posted on 04/19/2020 1:25:26 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

L8r


31 posted on 04/19/2020 1:26:52 AM PDT by preacher ( Journalism no longer reports news, they use news to shape our society.)
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To: noiseman

The reason I see why China destroyed the virus samples is to cover up the evidence they were tinkering with the natural source to make it more contagious and deadly. The Epoch Times video about the COVID-19’s origins reveals those changes. Take notes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gdd7dtDaYmM&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR1ewbX8yXAk5HkFnlgZOf93Xyu0ytp9N7lBcmfz6dNjVebGa65ior_0huM


32 posted on 04/19/2020 2:38:53 AM PDT by jonrick46 (Cultural Marxism is the cult of the Left waiting for the Mothership.)
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To: noiseman

The reason I see why China destroyed the virus samples is to cover up the evidence they were tinkering with the natural source to make it more contagious and deadly. The Epoch Times video about the COVID-19’s origins reveals those changes. Take notes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gdd7dtDaYmM&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR1ewbX8yXAk5HkFnlgZOf93Xyu0ytp9N7lBcmfz6dNjVebGa65ior_0huM


33 posted on 04/19/2020 2:43:43 AM PDT by jonrick46 (Cultural Marxism is the cult of the Left waiting for the Mothership.)
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To: chris37

How many Chinese communist party officials have died from this virus? None? 1? The doctor that was working on this is dead no answers from him. We will never get the truth from the Chi coms that’s for sure.


34 posted on 04/19/2020 3:10:40 AM PDT by johnny reb
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Full scale investigation instead of a 1/8 scale investigation, or the full scale price of an investigation that only gets reduced scale results?


35 posted on 04/19/2020 3:41:23 AM PDT by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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To: DarthVader

yep, they would not leave it as a known weapon, they would not alter it, just release it, they protected some of the country and let some die to have deniability, while infecting the world, so they are the only nation where it has not spread throught, it was their plan, make the world sick and be the supplier.. China should be isolated and removed from all world trade..they are a world enemy on the level of Hitler..we are watching the rise..


36 posted on 04/19/2020 4:01:26 AM PDT by aces (and)
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To: chris37

we are at war, out gangstamint wont say it, either side, it will be bad...China will not go down willingly, other world powers see the next 100 years under USA and Israel, its now or never..believe in Christ. no man needed, no priest needed, walk with God


37 posted on 04/19/2020 4:06:32 AM PDT by aces (and)
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To: DarthVader

Trump can’t go off half cocked right now. The Chinese, trying to show they’re our equal on research, sounds like a pretty lame misdirection. Releasing a global bio weapon is an act of war. When you release your information that proves it is a weapon and was intentionally released, you better have a very wide range of options to retaliate available. Right now we don’t. There is a day of reckoning coming for the Chicoms. Xi realizes this and is making ready. These are very dangerous times.


38 posted on 04/19/2020 5:08:42 AM PDT by hardspunned (MAGA, now more than ever)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Zero confidence in ANY damned thing Federal Gub mint,


39 posted on 04/19/2020 5:49:53 AM PDT by Joe Boucher ( Molon Labe' Baby, Molon Labe)
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To: hardspunned

We have already retaliated in several ways with some of our new toys and they worked great. What they did is an act of desperation. First order of business is to purge our country of all traitors and make a harsh example of them, We have already begun arresting them since January along with Chinese agents. The world is going to gang up on them.


40 posted on 04/19/2020 6:05:17 AM PDT by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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